Labor History - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

“It’s a match made in heaven!” One hears this said at weddings, at the end of mergers, at the hiring of CEOs, and, of course, at the hiring of coaches in the National Football League. Human history is rife with examples of a union of two... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

both host and home governments, and the international legal framework. The second was the market and resources of the host country. The third factor was competition from local firms. The impact of these factors on corporate strategies is explored during the three eras... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

Gazprom Goes Global

pipelines in Ukraine, to Europe. Abdelal’s case examines the history of Gazprom, the recent return of the state to ownership (with 50.002 percent), and Gazprom’s strategy for becoming a global energy company, mainly through acquisition... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

is an attempt to connect these two narratives. I provide early evidence that the growth of public university tuition over the previous two decades is negatively associated with movement into self-employment. Because labor market and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu deftly chronicle... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article suggests that the business history... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

of motives and identification with groups, norms, and culture. In economics we talked about the role leadership plays in coordination and how economic models can help us understand that. History points us to the role of the biographer and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

March 2000 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Menem and the Populist Tradition in Argentina

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Eliseo Neuman

Argentina has flourished under a fixed exchange rate system, yet there are large income and employment fluctuations. The social cost of unemployment is threatening the viability of the economic model. Building a welfare state is one alternative, but this may be a... View Details

Keywords: History; Governance; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Currency Exchange Rate; Welfare; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Argentina

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22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to be used for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

business today. What issues did you face when you returned to Hong Kong in 1972? When I returned, my friends told me, “We don’t know why you’ve come back. Hong Kong’s now too expensive. Our labor is too high, and Taiwan has taken all our... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My family has a View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

shareholders. He believed this required good corporate governance and effective oversight by the board of directors. The case explores the history of AFSCME's shareholder activism on this front and particularly its use of shareholder... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry depends on tapping into the best... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

most recently reported. Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995 to 2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

planet. The lesson of history is that making business sustainable is a hard journey, littered with system-wide roadblocks, but it is a journey that is possible and one that is urgently needed. Compassionate Management of Mental Health in... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Park has two parts. The first discusses the geological and social history of the site, focusing mainly on the park’s construction in the late 1850s and 1860s. The second part has essays on the 200-plus tree species and varieties. This is... View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Harvard Business School faculty offer their views: Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Geoff Jones, who researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business and has authored numerous books on these topics,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details